Photography
End of March update on my virtual challenge Lands End to John o’Groats (LEJoG) walk.
As of March 31st, I am currently just down the road from Stone Henge just north of Salisbury in Wiltshire England.
285 miles/459 kms completed – 799 miles/1,286 kms to go. (26% completed in 25% of the time)
I hope everyone is well with all the craziness that is happening in the world. Please follow all the Government guidelines and we will all get through this together.
I have been trying my best to avoid crowds and people and the result has been some moody and lonely pictures.
When the City of Ottawa starts blasting the ice above the Rideau Falls to prevent ice jams on the falls (This prevents flooding in this part of the city) you know Spring is on the way. We went down to the falls to do some Long Exposure photography to hopefully give a sense of movement of the water and ice. Most of the shots were between 1-5 seconds in length and 100 ISO, F29.
So I learned something with this set of photos. Always check your settings. The last photo I took with my camera before I took these was the night shot of Orion. I set the camera to Manual Focus and set the focus to infinity. I forgot to set it back to AutoFocus. These photos all came out as good as they did because of a couple of things. My F-stop was very high, allowing for everything to be in focus both near and far and the exposure was long, so that made the image a bit softer.
It has been a long winter and I really haven’t gotten out with my camera as much as I would have liked. This past weekend I grabbed my camera and just headed out into our backyard. I pulled out my 50mm prime lens and my macro tubes. Winter is much more fun up close.
